Since i've learned so much from this forums during the last 2 years, I decided to create this post to do something back for all the readers. I am making more and more money with Google adsense each month, and last month I made almost € 12.000 euro's! I am working fulltime on my websites now for about 6 months. If anyone has any questions, please post them (though an answer could take a while, sorry for that!). 1. The most important thing to make money with a website is choosing the right niche. Choose a niche which get lots of searches according to the Google keyword tool, AND which have lots of Google ads when you search for the keyword in Google. This could differ alot from country to country, so try different countries (so besides the US also UK, and French and German). I read a thread a few minutes ago about a guy that makes 12 dollars per day with a mesothelamia website on blogspot (a subject which is used by a lot of adsensers, since it is said to be the most expensive keyword on Google Adwords). Even with a highly competitive keyword like this, he makes money of it. The most important thing is the keyword that you target! Try to get the exact domainname of the keyword to make the SEO process easy. 2. Expand succes. Once you've found a good niche, expand it to other markets. Try googling the keyword in different google languages (google.fr, google.nl and google.es for example) to see if their are advertisers. Usually their are. 3. Pagerank still matters, but not as much as most think. I always mix between revelant links and high pagerank links. This works out for me. 4. Use blue links and white background, and preferrably 336x280. I sometimes use two of those blocks besides eachother, and sometimes use images in the background (see the adsense blackbook for more info about that). Place the ad below your title or in the middle of the text. 5. Target your pages on your website to high converting keywords, like "buy ..." and "... discountds". People tend to click on Google ads on those pages faster, because they search for things that the Google ads offer (discounts and places to buy the product). CTR can be VERY high with this. Well, I hope my text makes a bit of sense (I'm from Holland, so forgive me my spelling errors). Ooh, and for the people that don't believe my earnings, here's a screenshot: The earnings are in euro's since i'm a European Google Adsense Publisher.
you have a good CPM.so its definitely not celebrity niche is this from a single site or a collection ??
It's a collection of websites which are in niches that are above average CPC. I won't share my niches though.
congrats on your sucess! tell me, how much workhours have you spent a year ago and how much daily do you spend working now?
I used to spent lots of time on this, mainly promoting (SEO) and writing info for the websites. Almost all of the websites are static, whichs means that they don't require much updating once that are established. I am now working about 12 hours per weeks just for maintaining, i'm planning on making new sites once I have more time again. I used to work around 8 hours per day on creating this.
Not all site on the web update many are static and ranking fine Unique content is another story Well on site Backlinks = $$$